Category: Significant Sermons

JESUS IS HERE! Sermon preached at High Mass to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the laying of the Foundation Stone of All Saints’ Church, San Diego by the Rector Emeritus, Fr Tony Noble Sunday June 10th 2012 Ephesians 2:19-20 “So then you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow citizens with the […]

30 YEARS A PRIEST SERMON PREACHED BY FR. TONY NOBLE ON SUNDAY FEBRUARY 2nd 2010 In Australia there is a chocolate bar (which of course I would know) which is full of Brazil nuts. It’s called, surprisingly, a Brazil nut bar. The English have a chocolate without nuts called a Mars bar. […]

Introduction the the RECTOR’S ANNUAL REPORT – Parish Annual Meeting 2009 I want to begin this year’s report by quoting excerpts from a letter I received last year. It was from one of our parishioners who had moved from San Diego, and had been looking for a local Episcopal Church. “I always […]

Sermon for Sunday October 5th 2003 At All Saints’ Church, San Diego Genesis 28.17: “Jacob said ‘How awesome is this place! This is none other than the gate of heaven’.” I chose this text because it is about Jacob going on a journey. And I have been on a journey. And here, At […]

FINAL SERMON PREACHED BY FR TONY NOBLE At St Mark’s, Fitzroy – Sunday September 28, 2003 On this date 19 years ago, though it was a Friday – at 3pm I knocked on the door of the Vicarage. I had arrived to be interviewed by the Incumbency Committee. It had been fairly easy to […]

Sermon preached by Fr. Tony Noble On the 150th Anniversary of St Mark’s 1st July, 2003 2 Chronicles 6.2: “Because of the cloud, the priests could no long perform their duties.” Well, Archbishop, I can reassure you that would never be the case here! Thirty years ago at 2.30 pm on Sunday […]